So which justices were missing? Scalia, Alito and Clarence?

I can see Scalia - who dances to his own castanets - and Thomas who hurries to follow him. But why Alito? Still holding a grudge for the way Obama chastised them about Citizens United? When he was sitting mumbling something like: not true, shaking his head, some couple of SOTUs ago?

6. Thanks for the link

The President was invited by the Speaker to perform a duty detailed in the Constitution and these individuals who are supposed to interpret the Constitution decline. I wish someone asked them. Perhaps someone at Fox and friends..

12. In the modern era attendance by the Justices has been sparse.

In the period from 1982 (there was no address in 1981) through 1999, however, on average only
56 percent of the justices attended and no more than six justices attended any of the addresses (save for
two years early in this period, 1982 and 1984). In the period from 2000 forward, on average only 32
percent of the justices attended the State of the Union Address. This includes a three-year time period
when only a single justice – Stephen Breyer – represented the Court at the annual address.

7. SOTMA - State of the Mess Address

QE: I can see Scalia - who dances to his own castanets - and Thomas who hurries to follow him.

Why would thomas want to go, eh? just another place where I cant say anything, sheesh, I do that all day at work. Either he went to karaoke night at the hawk & dove, or stayed home watched 'long dong silver' with white bimbo wife.
(long dong the porno flick anita hill claimed he watched, during his confirmation).

But why Alito? Still holding a grudge for the way Obama chastised them about Citizens United? When he was sitting mumbling something like: not true..

Personally I don't watch the SOTMA (state of the mess address) when a republican president gives one, but then I'm not a supreme wizard, faster than a speeding lobbyist, as powerful as a loco motive, able to leap rationale arguments with a single bound.

15. At least we didn't have to look at Scalia

16. Scalia has missed the last 16 SOTUs

While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union.

17. Alito buried his mother on Monday

Alito's decision not to attend was no surprise, in particular because his mother, Rose, died last week at the age of 98. Her funeral took place in Hamilton, New Jersey, on Monday, according to an online obituary in a local newspaper.